Unravel the enigma of England's most notorious ruler whose reign was marked by a staggering death toll and a complex, tragic ...

Within two years, the Mongols utterly annihilated the empire: they sacked and destroyed its cities, chased the shah into exile, and killed possibly as many as 10 million people; not just Khwarazmians, ...

Ava Pickett’s award-winning début play, 1536, is a foul-mouthed, furious, frenetically funny ride through the lives of three young women living in Henry VIII’s England in the year of Anne Boleyn’s ...

Catherine Pepinster reveals how they might influence the process The conclave to select the new pontiff will contain an unusually large number of British cardinals, three of whom are outside ...

Young Catherine of Aragon, daughter of Isabella and Ferdinand, travels to England to marry Arthur, Prince of Wales. Struggling with resentment and cultural differences, ...

Garrett Mattingley, Catherine of Aragon (first published 1941; Random House, 2000) J. J. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII (first published 1968; Yale University Press, 1997) David Starkey, Six Wives: The ...

When Arthur died, Henry didn’t just inherit the throne—he inherited his brother’s fiancée, Catherine of Aragon. After marrying, the two became parents to a son—who tragically died two ...

Catherine of Aragon’s Monkey Henry VIII’s first wife , Catherine of Aragon, appears in multiple royal portraits with her primate pal. Historians suspect the monkey was a Panamanian white-faced ...

A historic cathedral where Mary Queen of Scots and Catherine of Aragon were buried is facing going part-time unless it can raise £300,000 by Easter.. Peterborough Cathedral declared it is 'in ...

In a dramatic scene, the incredulous imperial ambassador for the holy Roman emperor (and Catherine of Aragon’s nephew) Charles V, Eustace Chapuys, asks Cromwell if he will risk his life for Mary.